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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Death, Important, World

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• By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Morning, Eye

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• One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

  Dieter Rams

  Order, Design, Important

  François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

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• Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Heart, Men

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• Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

  Georges Braque

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

  May Sarton

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Looks, Saws

  1970 Of World War I. Fifth Business, pt.2, ch.1.

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• I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Educational

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to be unimportant unless it's to me. Every sound you hear empty unless it's my voice. I want you to remember that whatever pleasure you have from now on, you'll have it from me. ~Rurik Wilder~

  Christina Dodd

  Voice, Smell, Sound

  Christina Dodd (2007). “Touch of Darkness: Darkness Chosen”, p.91, Penguin

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• No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Hands, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

  Michael Ende

  Mean, Heart, People

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• The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Curves, Safety

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.344, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

  Jenny Downham

  Different

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

  Anne Rice

  Natural, Intoxication, Forbidden

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.710, Ballantine Books

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• It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

  Robert Orben

  Jobs, Important, Days Off

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• Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

  Alexander Lowen

  Levels, Want, Envious

  Alexander Lowen (2012). “Narcissism: Denial of the True Self”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!

  Maimonides

  Men, Attention, Littles

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.287, Courier Corporation

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• Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial to him. He is only concerned with life-with how he can use his life for the betterment of humanity. Having undergone various types of pain in his life and having acquired a certain mastery over pain, he develops compassion to help society and maintains himself in purity and holiness. The yogi has no interest beyond that.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Compassion, Humanity

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• The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

  Joe Meno

  Past, Cities, Glitter

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• Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

  David Eddings

  Happens

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

  Ayn Rand

  Important, Purpose, Way

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• You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

  Russell Baker

  Unimportant Things, Evil, Humanity

  "Observer; Don't Worry, Feel Good". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 1990.

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